“As a teacher, when students sit in my classroom, I do not teach and discipline them by my own authority. When a child is sent to the principal’s office for misbehavior, the principal also has no inherent authority over the child. The only
authority we have over them is what has been delegated to us by their parents. We are standing in the place of these parents; we are serving, as the Latin expression goes, in loco parentis.”
― Patrick Halbrook, Cary Christian School
PROVERBS 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
COLLECT FOR PURITY
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love You, and worthily magnify your holy Name,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
ART APPRECIATION
Millet was considered a realist in style, focusing on rural themes, and was said to have influenced artists such as Monet, Pissarro, and van Gogh.
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Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was born to a small peasant farmer in France. He began studying art at the age of 18 in Paris and was able to make a living by selling portraits, though that was not what he enjoyed painting most. The title of his first peasant piece that sold was The Winnower; however, it was later destroyed by fire. Following some public rumors as to his political beliefs, Millet moved to Barbizon, rance, where he lived the remainder of his life in poverty. It was during this part of his life that he completed some of his most famous works.
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MUSIC APPRECIATION
| Symphony No. 5: IV. “Adagietto – Sehr langsam” |
The fourth movement of Gustav Mahler’s hugely scaled fifth symphony, marked adagietto, is probably performed as a stand-alone work more often than any other single symphonic movement. Time seems to stop when we hear it. It is an exquisitely poetic meditation on the deepest sensations of feeling alive in the universe, of having a place in the boundlessness and beauty of divine creation. It is also, quite possibly, a love song without words. And within the larger musical context of the symphony itself, it is an expression of infinite serenity surrounded by fevered searching.
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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was a late Romantic composer, as well as one of the most prominent conductors of his generation. Best known for his nine finished symphonies, Mahler is a hugely important connection between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition of Beethoven and Brahms, and the early 20th-century modernism of Schoenberg and others. 4
- Lange, Krista, and Leigh Lowe. First Grade Enrichment: Classical Core Curriculum. Teacher Guide. Memoria Press, 2017. ↩︎
- Ibid. ↩︎
- Nstarling. “Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5.” Utah Symphony, 26 Mar. 2021, utahsymphony.org/explore/2021/03/mahler-adagietto-from-symphony-no-5/.
↩︎ - “Mahler: The Composer for Whom ‘the Symphony Must Be like the World.’” Classical Music, 30 Nov. 2024, http://www.classical-music.com/features/composers/gustav-mahler. ↩︎
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